Duster.



P. M. PAGE.

DUSTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1914.

1,130,325. Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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FRANCES M. PAGE, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

DUSTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCES M. PAGE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Duster, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in articles commonly known as dusters, and consists of a hand covering. and an application cloth attached at its edges to such covering and having sufficient fullness to furnish an irregular mass or wad in the hand of the operator for dustingor like purposes, which cloth may or may not be detachable, all as hereinafter set forth.

' The'primary object of my invention is to provide a convenient and inexpensive substitute for the cloth commonly used for dusting interior house finish and furniture, cleaning or polishing automobile seats and fixtures, finishing highly polished surfaces, and, like purposes, a substitute, in short, that serves practically any purpose for which a dusting, cleaning or polishing cloth of the ordinary type is adapted, and which at the same time protects the hand of the operator from dirt and dust or prevents the same from becoming soiled while using the device, and the dust cloth of which can be shaken readily out of a window or elsewhere without danger of dropping such cloth.

A further object of my invention is to pro- Vide, in such a device or duster, means whereby the dust cloth can be detached from the hand covering and itself or another replaced without ditliculty.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the course of the following description.

I attain the objects and secure the advantages of my inventi'on by the means illus' trated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a palm side elevation of a duster which embodies a practical form of my invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section through said duster, and, Fig. 3, a back side elevation of a duster wherein the dust cloth is detachable, one corner of such cloth being shown unfastened.

Similar numerals designate similar parts throughout the several views.

The hand covering may be of any suitable type and made up in various ways, but in the simple and inexpensive form which I prefer there is a back piece 1 and a palm piece 2,

these pieces or members being made long constrict and confine it at such point, and to this end or for this purpose I may provide an elastic band 5 and inclose the same in a casing made with the aid of a strip 6 of suitable material sewed or stitched at 7-7 around on the inside of the wrist extension 3 near the junction of such extension with the mitten proper-see Fig. 2. Other confining or fastening means, such as are well known in the art, may, however, be used in place of said hand with its inclosing strip. This hand covering is designed to be drawn on and off like any mitten, and when in place is securely confined at the wrist or attached to the wrist by means of the elastic band 5. A dust, polishing. or application cloth 8 is either permanently or releasably attached to the aforesaid hand covering.

If the application cloth 8 is to be attached permanently to the hand covering, it is first cut to the same general shape of either of the members 1 and 2. but very much larger, and then gathered at the edges wherever necessary and sewed or stitched in between the inturned edges of said members, at 4, and across the base of the palm piece 2 underneath the same. The numeral 9, in Fig. 2, indicates the part of the cloth 8 that is sewed or stitched to the underside of the palm piece 2. This application cloth, which in practice extends much lower, when left free to hang from the hand covering and the latter is in position to permit said cloth to hang. then was found expedient owing to lackof space to show it in the drawings, is very full, ample and even voluminous, so as to afford sufficient material for use in dusting, polishing, cleaning, etc., when said cloth is gathered up in a mass in the hand which is within said covering and applied to the use for which it is intended.

If it be desired to provide more than one application cloth 8 for a single hand covering, or for any reason to remove such cloth temporarily from such covering, some detachable fastening means, such as ordinary glove fasteners 10 are provided, whereby said cloth can readily be attached to and removed from said'covering. Each of the fasteners 10, shown in Fig. has its male part 11 secured to the back piece 1, on the I outside, and its female part 12 secured to the application cloth 8, on the inside. In this case three fasteners 10 are provided, one pair or set being located, when the cloth 8 is in place, adjacent to the front edge of the hand covering member 1., in the approximate center longitudinally thereof, and in the approximate center of the overturned front edge of said cloth, and the other two sets being located at or adjacent to the junction with the back side of the extension 8 of the hand portion of said covering member, and at or adjacent to the corners of said cloth. The cloth 8 is here out without any distinct or separate thumb portion, is gathered wherever and as may be necessary and when united with the hand covering has its side and front edges folded over the top of said covcr'ng and fastened in the manner shown and explained. The detachable application cloth is loose, full and voluminous like the other, and is used in precisely the same manner as is the other. More or less than three fasteners 10 may be used, and some other fastening or attaching devices or means may be substituted for said fasteners.

In attaching the cloth 8 to the hand covering, the latter is first placed on the hand, by preference, and then the edges ofsaid cloth which are provided with the fastener parts 12 are brought over the edges and back of said covering and said parts are snapped into engagement with the fastener parts 11. In detaching this cloth it is simply necessary to separate the parts 12 from the parts 11 and remove said cloth from the hand covering or the latter from the former, as the case may be.

For most purposes I prefer to use for the cloth 8 a rather loosely woven textile fabric of a dust-absorbing character, which may or may not be treated with a chemical composes an ordinary dusting, polishing, or

.cleaning cloth in an uneven mass form or in the form of a more or less tightly compressed wad, and proceed to dust, polish, or

clean with such cloth thus held in the hand.

The hand covering protects the hand from dust and dirt Wi'illOllt interfering in any way with the cloth 8 and the manipulation thereof. As a matter of fact, the existing attachment between the cloth 8 and the hand covering affords to the operator a better control over said cloth than he would have without such attachment. Moreover, the operator can at any time release from his hand the cloth 8 and shake the same freely and vigorously without the liability of dropping it, so long as the mitten is on the hand. \Vhen through using the duster, the mitten or hand covering is drawn off and the duster laid aside until again needed.

For dusting purposes only this device, to which I have applied the term duster, can be employed to advantage wherever the ordinary dust cloth would he usually employed, and employed in many if not most cases to better advantage, while for cleaning and polishing purposes such device is many times suitable, or can be made so, and even superior. It is clear, therefore, that my invention is not limited in use to a particular field of operation, and that the term duster is not to be construed as so limiting it.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a device of the class described comprising a hand covering, and an attached bag-like application cloth adapted to be collapsed and gathered in a mass into the covered hand.

FRANCES M. PAGE. 

